Appendix A – List of Acronyms
Jason S Wrench; Sanae Elmoudden; and Priya Sarda
The world of AI is filled with a ton of acronyms. We hope this list will help you as you go through the book.
| AGI | Artificial General Intelligence |
| AGV | Automated Guided Vehicles |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIST | Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| AMR | Autonomous Mobile Robots |
| ANI | Artificial Narrow Intelligence |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Networks |
| ASI | Artificial Super Intelligence |
| AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles |
| BCI | Brain-Computer Interfaces |
| CAIO | Chief AI Officer |
| CBT | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
| CCPA | California Consumer Privacy Act |
| CIGI | Center of International Governance Innovation |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Networks |
| DBT | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy |
| DFT | Diversity Fine-Tuning |
| DEIA | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| EC | European Commission |
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Networks |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GMM | Gaussian Mixture Models |
| GPT | Generative Pre-Trained Transformer |
| GRU | Gated Recurrent Unit |
| HMC | Human-Machine Communication |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IHL | International Humanitarian Law |
| IJCNN | International Joint Conference on Neural Networks |
| IJOP | Integrated Joint Operations Platform |
| IOC | International Olympic Committee |
| JWST | James Webb Space Telescope |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicators |
| LLM | Large Language Model |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| NER | Named Entity Recognition |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| NMT | Neural Machine Translation |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Unit |
| RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| RPN | Region Proposal Networks |
| SCOTUS | Supreme Court Of The United States |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| UBI | Universal Basic Income |
| UGV | Unmanned Ground Vehicles |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Program |
| WEF | World Economic Forum |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |
